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单词 as whole as a fish
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as whole as a fish (also trout, etc.)
P2. as whole as a fish (also trout, etc.) and variants: in excellent health or condition. Cf. fish-whole adj., sound as a trout at trout n.1 1a, as sound as a roach at roach n.1 Phrases. Obsolete.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11884 A noble baþ we shul þe make Bi þat þou com þerof oute þou shal be hool as any troute [Vesp. hale sum ani trute].
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xvi. l. 153 (MED) His Arm be-Cam As hol Anon As was fisch that bar A bon.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 265 Anon þe lepur fel from hym and he was hole as a fysche.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii I am forthwith as hole as a troute.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. v. 18 They are both as whole as a fish . View more context for this quotation
1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions vi. 244 In four and twenty hours he made them as whole as Fishes.
1713 R. Peirce Hist. & Mem. Bath viii. 183 He return'd recover'd,..and continued (as the Proverb says) as whole as a Tench, and as sound as a Trout.
1807 tr. P. Calderón de la Barca Keep your Own Secret ii, in tr. 3 Comedies from Spanish 180 D. Felix. Broken your sword! Why, don't I see it whole by your side? Lazaro. Aye, Sir, as whole as a roach [Sp. entera està].
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